NASA takes you on a ride to Pluto in new video

NASA has released a short videothat givespeople an out-of-this-world experience,as if they're flying to Pluto, the distant dwarf planet.

NASA releases compilation video of Pluto flyby

8 years ago

Duration 0:39

Images taken by New Horizons spacecraft

The video uses more than 100images from New Horizons, which in July 2015became the first spacecraft to fly by the mysterious dwarf planet more than seven billion kilometres from Earth.

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The movie begins as the New Horizons approaches Pluto, at first a mere dot. However, the planet becomes larger until finally its complicated surface is revealed in great detail.

Until the flyby, little was known about this icy planet. Since then, however, much has been discovered about Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

New Horizons is on a new mission to another object in the Kuiper Belt, a collection of icy bodies on the edge of our planetary solar system. It will reach its target the object2014 MU69 in January 2019.